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The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and…
The holy city, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...The holy citie, or, The new-Jerusalem wherein its goodly light walls, gates, angels, and the manner of their standing, are expounded : also, her length and breadth, together with the golden measuring-reed, explained, and the glory of all unfolded : as also, the numerousness of its inhabitants, and what the tree and water of life are, by which they are sustained / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And observe it, these Promises are1 to be fulfilled in the last days, at the time of the pouring forth of the last Vial, which is the time of the sounding of the last of the seven Trumpets; for then this City shall be builded, and Lucifer fallen from Heaven; then the Prisoners shall be set at liberty, and the People be gathered together, and the Kingdoms, to serve the Lord. Rejoice, O ye Nations with his People, for he will avenge the blood 2of his Servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful to his Land, and to his People. Alas it is now towards the end of the world, and therefore now all is going, if the Lord steps not in with the riches of his Grace. Wherefore now at last before all be turned into fire and ashes, behold the Lord3 casts the net among the multitude of Fish, and the abundance of the Sea shall, without fail, be converted to Jerusalem. Though Satan and Antichrist have had ⟨p. 219⟩their day in the world, & by their outrage have made fearful havoc of the souls of sinners from time to time, yet now at length God will strike in for a share with them, and his Son shall divide the spoil 4with the Strong. Wherefore he now sets up this City, puts the Glory of Heaven upon her, provides a New Heaven and5 a New Earth for her situation; drives profaneness into the holes and dens of the Earth: giveth Righteousness authority to reign in the world; and takes off the6 veil from all faces, that none may hereafter be for ever beguiled by blindness and ignorance. Now shall they make7 merry with the things of God; now shall all eat the fat and drink the sweet: For in this Mountain shall the Lord make a feast of fat things to all People, a feast of Wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of Wine on the lees well refined;